The Wallace Markfield Papers
Chronology
Selected Biography and Bibliography
1926 Born August 12 in Brooklyn, grew up in Brooklyn
? Graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School
1947 B.A., Brooklyn College
1948-1950 Graduate work at New York University
1948 Married Anna May Goodman
? Daughter – Andrea Kate
1952 In addition to the years teaching college (as noted below) and some time off
for full-time writing (supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National
Institute of Arts and Letters grant), Markfield was at various times a publicity writer for the
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Fund, the Council of Jewish
Federations and American Jewish Committee, and the Anti-Defamation League.
In
1954 and 1955 he also wrote film critiques for the New Leader.
1964 To An Early Grave
1966-68 Assistant Professor, San Francisco State College
1968-69 Writer in residence, Kirkland College (NY)
1971-73 Assistant Professor, Queens College (CUNY)
1971 Teitelbaum’s Window
1974 You Could Live If They Let You
1977 Multiple Orgasms
1991 Radical Surgery
2002 Died May 24 in Roslyn, New York
Throughout his writing career, Markfield contributed at least 40 articles to
periodicals.
After 1991, Markfield’s writing apparently slowed down or stopped. According to
the LC catalog, Markfield published no volumes after Radical Surgery (1991).
The information above was found in the Dictionary of Literary Biography
(1984), 28:175-81; Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists (1997); Contemporary
Authors (1978), 69-72:399; Contemporary Novelists (6th ed., 1996); and
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series, Vol. 3 (1986). For source citations
on Markfield, see the pages in the Biography and Genealogy Master Index
(University of South Carolina – DISCUS) and other materials in the Finding List,
Box 8, Folder 9.
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